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Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 14 years agoJust so you know, it makes no difference whether you have compression on or not when you make a disk image.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 14 years agoFraid not, Ben. I don't actually use the plugin; I was just offering up secondhand advice. The fact that you had to go in and modify the source code doesn't bode well, however. Maybe your best bet is just to wait until Canon or GlueTools releases a plugin that supports your camera, much as that may suck.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 14 years agoYup, you did answer your own question. The name "disk image" is actually misleading. They're really filesystem images. Anything with a filesystem on it can be turned into a ".dmg" file. You do it through Disk Utility, like any other disk image. But if I remember right, the EOS plugin actually has a function right inside it for making an image of a mounted card.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Canon EOS T2i & FCP Log & Capture (issues) - 14 years agoLike most other L&T plugins, you need to have the entire directory structure of the card for the plugin to work. You can't just pull Quicktimes off the card and then use the plugin to import them. It's a good idea to get in the habit of making disk images of your cards before log-and-transfer. I know you said you're using a card reader, but you also said you're trying to address the Quicktby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: converting AVCHD into FC - 14 years agoQuoteI am not clear on whether apple/FC can convert AVCHD files in a way that keeps the high quality. It does. Final Cut Pro converts AVCHD to ProRes through log-and-transfer. ProRes is a very high-quality format, suitable for the most demanding applications. Quote What I am noticing during the ingested video being played on QT (converted to .mov) is that there are horizontal lines that appeby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Removing Letterbox for SD output for web - 14 years agoNo worries. There are just different folks who haunt the different forums, and you've a better chance at getting the attention of somebody who knows what the hell "On2 Flix Standard" means over here.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Removing Letterbox for SD output for web - 14 years agoI'll move this to the correct forum for you.by Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: .mov's - shouldn't these play in DVD player? (for non tech client) - 14 years agoYes please. I was going to say, with my moderator hat on, please refrain from making multiple threads on the same topic. If something gets posted in the wrong forum, any of us can move it for you in about a second and a half. We all know how stressful it can be when things aren't going well, but it's at times like that that it's more important than ever to make it easier, not harder, for peoplby Jeff Harrell - Compressor - Media Compression and Conversion Re: Bug with colour generator FCP 6.02 - 14 years agoGood to know. Thanks for that, man.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Bug with colour generator FCP 6.02 - 14 years agoI'm fairly sure, but would love to be corrected, that that video processing setting only applies to imported RGB material, not to generators. Am I crazy to think that?by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Bug with colour generator FCP 6.02 - 14 years agoYeah, Final Cut maps 100% luminance to 235 digital luminance, which is 100 IRE on an analog scope. When you feed it RGB data as image sequences or whatever, you can choose whether to map 255 RGB to 235 luma (the default) or whether to bring in 255 RGB as 255 luma/109 IRE/whatevs. All things considered I wish all applications, not just Final Cut, had great big labels on the controls that saiby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Bug with colour generator FCP 6.02 - 14 years agoAh, but that's a nuanced point as well. Because 255/255/255 is not a superwhite value if, like Final Cut, your application maps full-range RGB values to Rec. 601 compliant luma values. This can bite you if your graphics guy decided to be all smart and work inside 16-235, and your application subsequently crushed that range further by mapping 0-16 and 255-235 for you. Not that I've ever beenby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: MBP 2.53 and Drive or Raid setup - 14 years agoThen next time I'll choose my words more carefully. Cause what I really meant to type there was "You really, for the love of all that's good and holy in this life, do not want to do this." Maybe I'm old and cynical. But I've lost so many hard drives to mechanical or electronic failure in my career that the idea of betting my business on one ? or hell, even my hobby ? leaves me shiverby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: MBP 2.53 and Drive or Raid setup - 14 years agoWhy do I get the distinct impression that you wanted not advice, but validation?by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Bug with colour generator FCP 6.02 - 14 years agoI guess I should probably be a good citizen and explain what I mean by rounding errors. RGB goes from 0 to 255. Digital luminance, according to the CCIR-601 spec that started it all, goes from 16 to 235. The values between 0 and 15 and between 236 and 255 are reserved for superwhite and superblack, luminance values that can't be represented in 8-bit RGB at all; they're off-scale high and low,by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: MBP 2.53 and Drive or Raid setup - 14 years agoQuoteI already have backup drives that I can manually backup the RAID setup to after each session, which is the plan, so that shouldn't be an issue. You will not do this. Quote I'll back it up myself, I promise. You really won't. Seriously. I'm not griping you out personally. I'm just saying that we've all been there, and none of us is perfect. The one time you forget to drag that folder aby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Bug with colour generator FCP 6.02 - 14 years agoWe can call that a bug if you want, but it's such a minor one I'd be amazed if it gets any attention. The difference between 254 and 255 in 8-bit RGB is way inside the margin of rounding error for the rendering pipeline. Just for fun, I did a test. I laid down six frames of color solid, from 250/250/250 to 255/255/255. I exported two Quicktime movies, both uncompressed 8-bit, first with 8-bitby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: MBP 2.53 and Drive or Raid setup - 14 years agoDo you care very much about losing everything you've ever shot?by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: A mixed frame rate mess - 14 years agoThe frame-rate question has been covered in exhaustive detail on the forum already. Try the search function.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: capture settings, HDV to SD - 14 years agoHDV and DV are exactly the same data rate. If you're dropping frames because your disks aren't fast enough, going down to DV won't help you. HDV is, however, quite computationally intensive. You're on an iMac. I suspect it simply can't keep up.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Are SD Broadcast NTSC monitors becoming obsolete? - 14 years agoWhy guess at these things? They're trivially googlable. US penetration of HD is about 45%, worldwide penetration is about 8%. So yes. SD is still relevant. If you're doing an SD show, you need a flipping SD monitor. This is, like, blindingly obvious, man. Of course, if you're still working in DV in 2010, you obviously don't care very much about how your show looks in the first place. Soby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Dual G5 2.3 vs MBP 2.53 (Late 2008) - 14 years agoFinal Cut Pro 7 is Intel-only.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: New MBPs. - 14 years agoGreat. Now I've got something else to measure and then feel bad about.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Is Raid 1 fast enough to edit in? - 14 years agoI elaborated on my rationale for my five-year prediction elsewhere on the forum recently; sorry for making it sound like I was trying to speak ex cathedra. The short version is that Light Peak as currently designed is a multiplexing technology. It takes existing protocols like Display Port and USB and SDI and runs them through sophisticated electro-optical converters, and puts them on a high-bandby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Is Raid 1 fast enough to edit in? - 14 years agoThere's nothing game-changing about USB 3. It's just USB, only faster. Maybe it'll work fine for real-time applications, maybe it won't; nobody knows yet. Light Peak is five years away from widespread adoption, minimum. Wireless is very close now to its theoretical limits right now, and it's not nearly fast enough for real time. That may mean we need new theories, obviously.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Adding pulldown to 23.98fps material to create 29.97i - 14 years agoQuoteI got blurred frames which look like two fields have been interlaced together that don't match. Not to be rude, but you know how 3:2 pulldown works, right?by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Crashing.... ALOT - 14 years agoYou should never have a kernel panic. A kernel panic isn't like an application crash. Applications have bugs; crashes happen sometimes. But a kernel panic indicates a hardware problem. You either have bad hardware or a bad kernel extension (that is to say, driver most likely).by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: Adding pulldown to 23.98fps material to create 29.97i - 14 years agoUnfortunately there are many places where you might be going wrong, 'cause it's a fairly complicated process. I may have mentioned before how workarounds like this, in my opinion, suck. First thing: make sure your comp matches your source material precisely. Easiest way to do this is to drag the source material to the little "make comp" button at the bottom of the project pane. Neby Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: OT: New blackmagic product - 14 years agoI'm on the east coast. That one was written during prime coffee-drinkin' time.by Jeff Harrell - Café LA Re: OT: New blackmagic product - 14 years agoIt's actually not a matter of time before USB 3 is on the Mac Pro. It's a matter of Intel's engineering, or Apple's business decisions. See, Apple's gotten themselves into the position of actually designing virtually none of the internal components of a Mac Pro. They're responsible for the actual board design, the case and cooling and the power, and that's nearly it. Right now Intel is makingby Jeff Harrell - Café LA |
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